BBC SSO: Korngold Violin Concerto - CANCELLED

BBC SSO: Korngold Violin Concerto

Please note, Due to ongoing impact of the Omicron variant and problems caused to the group travel of the orchestra, this performance is now cancelled.

KORNGOLD                                         Violin Concerto (c.25 mins)
WAGNER (arr. Henk de Vlieger)  Meistersinger, an orchestral tribute (c.48 mins)
Benjamin Beilman                          violin
Antony Hermus                                conductor

Korngold’s glamorous, glittering Violin Concerto is an extraordinary fusion of Hollywood and Old Vienna.  Quoting themes from his movie scores of the 1930s, it was a late success for a composer who’d discovered his richly romantic music was perfect for the big screen. Here it will take flight in the hands of our wonderful soloist, Benjamin Beilman. Wagner’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg was once described as ‘the longest smile in the German language’. After his thrilling interpretation of music from The Ring in 2019, conductor Antony Hermus returns to the BBC SSO with Henk de Vlieger’s distillation of the composer’s sunniest opera, a non-stop outpouring of warmth and melody, guaranteed to melt the hardest of hearts.

*£6 tickets are available for Students, Under 26s and Unemployed (Price Band C & D).